Timeline for Why are questions closed immediately?
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| May 24, 2022 at 15:43 | comment | added | user1158281 | Closing too rapidly is frustrating for anyone trying to answer fully. By the time you've created an short script to show the solution and tested it, the question has been closed and you've wasted half an hour or more trying to help. | |
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| Jan 9, 2016 at 21:04 | comment | added | Deduplicator | If they are not reopened for weeks, obviously those who could honour your request, disagree with its appropriateness. I doubt any such request is active more than a few hours before it's handled one way or the other. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 7:46 | comment | added | Dan Dascalescu | "And re-opening is no longer a process than closing the question is/was" - is that really the case in 2014? New questions are closed pronto because there's a closing queue, but I've fixed and nominated several questions for reopening and eventually after a week of not activity, I had to resort to meta to have them reopened ([example](meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/222790/request-to-reopen-so-question-on-javascript-error-detection)). I have other questions pending with <5 reopen votes for weeks. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 9:22 | comment | added | vartec | @Cody: it's just in some cases closing is more like moderator saying "this really should be deleted, but I don't have the balls to do so". Which is kinda useless, because closed questions are still searchable and still pollute the site. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 9:20 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @vartec: Yes, probably. What does that have to do with anything? That's not the choice we're making here. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 9:17 | comment | added | vartec | @Cody: isn't crappy question with just one or two crappy answers more harmful to community, than even a crappy question, but with good answers? | |
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| May 25, 2011 at 7:38 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @user: Anyone is free to upvote questions. Someone like you who seems to resent closing questions could upvote them at the same time that other users are voting to close them. And sometimes, they get upvotes because they're good questions, but they simply don't belong on our site. And they have answers because people are trying to gain some quick rep. Just because a question is answered doesn't mean that it's on-topic or a good question. And just because an answer is left doesn't mean that it's actually a good answer. In fact, they're usually not. See "garbage in, garbage out" above. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 7:37 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @user: There isn't a "huge list". That's simply false. Questions that are closed are not immediately deleted. As I mentioned, we like to give users a chance to clean up the questions and get them re-opened. Beyond that, it's possible that some of the older questions contain useful answers that we don't want to lose in a deletion, but those questions no longer meet our requirements, so we don't want them to remain open. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 7:36 | comment | added | user162601 | one more thing, then why such questions have upvotes and answers as well? | |
| May 25, 2011 at 7:36 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @user: If they ask it again, it'll get closed as a duplicate of the original question. Eventually they'll learn to edit the original question. And re-opening is no longer a process than closing the question is/was. Especially if they improve the question in an obvious way, and then flag for moderator attention. A mod can immediately re-open the question, but they have pretty high standards for when they choose to do so. That's a good thing, because they're respecting the consensus of the community who voted to close it in the first place. The problems must be fixed to get it re-opened. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 7:34 | history | edited | Cody Gray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 25, 2011 at 7:32 | comment | added | user162601 | there are a huge list of question which are closed but not deleted why? | |
| May 25, 2011 at 7:31 | comment | added | user162601 | reopening is a long process instead a user will leave that question and ask it again. so reopening is not a better option. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 7:20 | history | answered | Cody Gray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |